[Vwdiesel] Cyl head issues

[James Hansen]

Lol, true enough.

Just be sure to stop halfway through and run it through as a plug tap, or it
will break when you try to bottom it if you leave the tapered threads.

In that size, it would be a tough one to grind away that nice shiny tool
steel.  The sparks make dollar signs in a darkened room...

Get a machinist to thread a chunk of drill rod, grind some notches in it for
cutting edges with your slitting saw, heat treat, and you be a man with a
bottoming tap...
-James
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Libbybapa at wmconnect.com [mailto:Libbybapa at wmconnect.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:50 PM
  To: jhsg at sasktel.net
  Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Cyl head issues


  In a message dated 10/18/05 7:06:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
jhsg at sasktel.net writes:



    Yabbut, where do you get a bottoming tap for a helicoil that size?



  Any tap is a bottoming tap when you take the grinder to it.  :-)

  Andrew
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